David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind (http://www.universalmind
.com) and is located in Savannah, Georgia. David’s current focus is developing the next
generation of rich Internet applications with Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash. David is the
author of the AIR for Flash Developers video training series (Lynda.com, 2008). David
has worked on a variety of development platforms including ColdFusion and PHP.
When David does not have a computer in front of him, he is probably playing guitar.
David writes regularly at http://www.insideria.com, and his blog can be found at http:
//www.davidtucker.net.

Marco Casario is the founder and CTO of Comtaste (http://www.comtaste.com), a
company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in rich Internet applications in the enterprise
field. He’s an Adobe Community Expert, an Adobe Master Instructor for Flex,
and a professional speaker at international conferences like Adobe MAX, Flash on the
Beach, 360Flex, FITC, AJAXWorld, and Web 2.0 Expo. Marco is the author of Flex
Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 3 Developers (friends of ED, 2007) and The
Essential Guide to AIR with Flash (friends of ED, 2008), as well as a coauthor of Advanced
AIR Applications (friends of ED, 2009). He runs his well-known personal blog
at http://casario.blogs.com.

Koen De Weggheleire is a faculty member of the Technical University of West-
Flanders (HOWEST) where he teaches Flash Platform solutions (Flash, Flex, and AIR)
with a smile. As the Adobe User Group manager for Belgium (http://www.adobeu
sergroup.be) and Adobe Community Expert for Flash, Koen is heavily addicted to the
community; he inspires the community by his blog at http://www.newmovieclip.com
and by speaking at several events (Adobe MAX, FITC, 360 Flex, Flashbelt, Flash in the
Can, and Flash on the Beach). Koen also is a coauthor of Foundation Flex for Developers
(friends of ED, 2007). When there is still some time left, you can find Koen at his
company, Happy-Banana, together with Wouter Verweirder doing Flash Platform consultancy
on advanced, award-winning rich Internet applications. When Koen is not
talking ActionScript, you can find him producing music, collecting goodies, eating
pizza, or renovating his 100-year-old house.

Rich Tretola currently is the rich applications technical lead at Herff Jones. An awardwinning
Flex developer, he is the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (Wrox, 2007) and
the sole author of Beginning AIR (Wrox, 2008). Rich has been building Internet applications
for more than 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta
version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion,
Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA
and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at http:
//everythingflex.com, is the community manager of http://insideria.com, and was also a
speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. Rich will be speaking at MAX
2008 in San Francisco. For a nontechnical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a company
that manufactures chocolate bars located on Maui named WowWee Maui.

The animal on the cover is a marsh harrier.
The cover image is from Wood’s Animate Creation. The cover font is Adobe ITC
Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed;
and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSansMonoCondensed.